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The dating apps that failed to deliver the joys of sex and romance now offer AI as cupid. No thanks | Tatum Hunter

Endless swiping has left a generation of singles burned out. But get real: dating assistants and AI-aided chats will never recreate the friction of real romanceAfter years of shrinking usage and tumbling stock prices, the dating app Bumble is teasing a major change to its product. But in solving one problem, it might be walking […]

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AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik

For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machinesHere is a nightmare scenario for you. You are writing a book about how AI reshapes reality. You start using it as a research partner, confident that you are applying the

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Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilitiesA coalition of more than a hundred refugee children’s organisations has said controversial plans to use AI to assess the age of young asylum seekers could lead to more children wrongly ending up in adult prisons or

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Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch

The Transformer’s attention mechanism has barely changed since 2017. Most efficiency work has tried to replace softmax attention outright. A new paper takes a different route. It keeps softmax attention and bolts on a correction branch. A team of researchers from Northwestern University, Tilde Research, and University of Washington introduce a parameterized Local Linear Attention

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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firmFacebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta.Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her

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Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong? | Eduardo Porter

A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damnedSam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, took to the Internet a few years ago to propose that homo sapiens would be the first species “to design our own descendants”. In his best

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A Coding Implementation on Loguru for Designing Robust, Structured, Concurrent, and Production-Ready Python Logging Pipelines

In this tutorial, we implement a practical use case with Loguru, a powerful, flexible, and production-ready logging library for Python. We start by building a clean, idempotent logging setup that can be safely rerun without duplicating handlers or producing messy output. From there, we move step by step through structured logging, contextual logging, custom log

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Trajectory Releases a Concurrent Multi-LoRA Training Stack for Continual Learning, Reporting a 2.81× Experiment-Throughput Gain

Trajectory’s concurrent multi-LoRA stack reports a 2.81× experiment-throughput gain over single-tenant RL, with all code in the NovaSky-AI/SkyRL GitHub repository. Most language models improve in discontinuous jumps. A team collects data, trains, and ships a new version. This takes months and produces remarkable or catastrophic behavior for users. Trajectory wants to replace that cycle with

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Best Text-to-Speech TTS Models in 2026: A Benchmark-Based Comparison

Text-to-speech TTS moved fast over the past year. The line between synthetic and human speech narrowed. Latency dropped below 100 milliseconds for some real-time systems. Emotional control became a standard feature rather than a research demo. This guide reviews the models that really matter in 2026. It is written for AI professionals choosing a model

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An industry targeting Australia’s ageing population is growing, but can AI deliver more humanity in aged care?

While companion robots are being introduced and virtual experiences hope to ‘take loneliness away’, one expert agrees tech should never replace the human elementGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“You’ll never get rid of humans,” Prof Wendy Moyle says, during a discussion about robots and other technology in aged care and

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